Edel Coffey: Choosing work comes with guilt — it feels like compromising motherhood

'There are years where it’s a struggle to keep working even at the smallest level at all and sometimes it will be a thankless, low-paid struggle. But I think that struggle is worth it'

Charlotte, Carrie and Miranda in ...And Just Like That.

In my experience, career mojo and mojo-mojo are intricately linked. If the career mojo is off, the mojo-mojo is often out of whack too.

This is not a scientifically controlled study, just something I’ve noticed over the past few years of riding the flooding and ebbing tides of a career interrupted by motherhood and relocation.